It seems this story is now going viral among "climate-skeptics" and the like.
I learned about this because I got a google alert that organic search traffic to my technological antisolutions post is way up. Turns out the conspiracy theory crowd caught wind of the company Bill Gates invested in that is cutting down and burying trees to sell carbon credits, kodama.ai, which I wrote about in that post. They're obviously going nuts about it.
These kinds of greenwashing schemes are functionally indistinguishable from climate denial, so it's really no surprise that people are confused and angry about it.